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  • sweetsand
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    Comms69 said:
    moneysavinghero said:
    Bear in mind that would have a duty to make adjustments to the property to make it easier for a disabled person to live in.
    No a landlord is not required to make adjustment to a property. Please can you quote the regs?
    Seconded. Where the coucil etc start giving them a hard time, most will just serve a notice to quite.
  • ameliarate
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    sweetsand said:
    onwards&upwards said:
    If you are going to be a landlord reluctantly, please please don’t be one.
    Some times there is no option as the property someone has been left in a will may have sitting tenants in there with a contract of anything from a few months to a few years.
    OP, if you are not sure, do you have letting agents they are very helpful, good ones that is
    I’m in a similar position to this and even if I sold the property what do you do with the money given current  interest rates? I would highly recommend good agents as I knew nothing about renting a property and there are all sorts of regs you need to adhere to. 
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  • moneysavinghero
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    Tsweetsand said:
    Comms69 said:
    moneysavinghero said:
    Bear in mind that would have a duty to make adjustments to the property to make it easier for a disabled person to live in.
    No a landlord is not required to make adjustment to a property. Please can you quote the regs?
    Seconded. Where the coucil etc start giving them a hard time, most will just serve a notice to quite.
    sweetsand said:
    Comms69 said:
    moneysavinghero said:
    Bear in mind that would have a duty to make adjustments to the property to make it easier for a disabled person to live in.
    No a landlord is not required to make adjustment to a property. Please can you quote the regs?
    Seconded. Where the coucil etc start giving them a hard time, most will just serve a notice to quite.
    That would be a breach under section 27 of the Equality Act 2010
  • onwards&upwards
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    sweetsand said:
    onwards&upwards said:
    If you are going to be a landlord reluctantly, please please don’t be one.
    Some times there is no option as the property someone has been left in a will may have sitting tenants in there with a contract of anything from a few months to a few years.
    OP, if you are not sure, do you have letting agents they are very helpful, good ones that is
    You can sell a house with sitting tenants, auction is quickest.
  • mattyprice4004
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    moneysavinghero said:
    Tsweetsand said:
    Comms69 said:
    moneysavinghero said:
    Bear in mind that would have a duty to make adjustments to the property to make it easier for a disabled person to live in.
    No a landlord is not required to make adjustment to a property. Please can you quote the regs?
    Seconded. Where the coucil etc start giving them a hard time, most will just serve a notice to quite.
    sweetsand said:
    Comms69 said:
    moneysavinghero said:
    Bear in mind that would have a duty to make adjustments to the property to make it easier for a disabled person to live in.
    No a landlord is not required to make adjustment to a property. Please can you quote the regs?
    Seconded. Where the coucil etc start giving them a hard time, most will just serve a notice to quite.
    That would be a breach under section 27 of the Equality Act 2010
    Just hand them a section 21 without being specific - and if questioned, say you want to move back into the property. 
    While I don't agree with evicting people for these reasons, there's ways around everything - a lot of landlords don't have the money to go spending on making a property 'disabled compatible'. 

    To clarify, I don't have a problem with DSS tenants and I've had some myself - but I'd also not want to be spending thousands on a property only to have them potentially hand in their notice a few months later. 

  • mattyprice4004
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    Also just to add - you can't categorically deny DSS tenants in adverts etc, but if you find your mortgage company / insurance provider etc won't allow you to have DSS tenants you'll just need to whittle down applicants to those who do meet the requirements of the companies you work with. 
  • Comms69
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    moneysavinghero said:
    Comms69 said:
    moneysavinghero said:
    Comms69 said:
    moneysavinghero said:
    Bear in mind that would have a duty to make adjustments to the property to make it easier for a disabled person to live in.
    No a landlord is not required to make adjustment to a property. Please can you quote the regs?
    http://www.thepropertylandlord.co.uk/disability-discrimination-act-property-lettings.html


    Although there are certain obligations on a landlord to make adaptations, the measures that you may need to take don’t include removing or altering what’s defined as a physical feature of the property. A physical feature could be:

    • any feature that forms part of the way that the property is designed or constructed
    • any feature that’s part of the approach to, exit from or access to the property
    • any fixtures in or on the property.

    So they dont. thanks for clarifying...
    They do. You just said. You changed the word adjustment to adaption..
    I didnt change anything, and anyone is able to follow that link and see that.
  • Comms69
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    moneysavinghero said:
    Tsweetsand said:
    Comms69 said:
    moneysavinghero said:
    Bear in mind that would have a duty to make adjustments to the property to make it easier for a disabled person to live in.
    No a landlord is not required to make adjustment to a property. Please can you quote the regs?
    Seconded. Where the coucil etc start giving them a hard time, most will just serve a notice to quite.
    sweetsand said:
    Comms69 said:
    moneysavinghero said:
    Bear in mind that would have a duty to make adjustments to the property to make it easier for a disabled person to live in.
    No a landlord is not required to make adjustment to a property. Please can you quote the regs?
    Seconded. Where the coucil etc start giving them a hard time, most will just serve a notice to quite.
    That would be a breach under section 27 of the Equality Act 2010
    No it wouldnt since a s.21 notice is a no fault eviction.


  • moneysavinghero
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    edited 28 August 2020 at 2:17PM
    Mattyprice4004 said:
    Just hand them a section 21 without being specific - and if questioned, say you want to move back into the property. 
    If you issued a section 21 after the tenant had requested reasonable adjustments (and without you making those adjustments), then there would be all sorts of charities and agencies that would very happily assist the tenant in taking legal action against you.
  • theartfullodger
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    MOST UK adults are on receipt of one benefit or other, growing since covid19.

    About 1 million working people get some HB or UC/HE to assist with rent.

    Artful: landlord, 72, in receipt of 6 benefits you generous taxpayers you.
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